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/kill/proc

URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/kill/proc

Kills a running proc instance.

Input Parameter Description

Name

Type

Description

run_id

string

The run ID of a running proc instance. If a proc with a matching run ID is not found or the proc instance has already completed, no procs will be killed. If not specified, all running proc instances will be killed. The default value is ''.

options

map of string to strings

Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Supported Parameters (keys)

Parameter Description

run_tag

If input parameter run_id is specified, kill the proc instance that has a matching run ID and a matching run tag that was provided to /execute/proc. If input parameter run_id is not specified, kill the proc instance(s) where a matching run tag was provided to /execute/proc. The default value is ''.

clear_execute_at_startup

If true, kill and remove the instance of the proc matching the auto-start run ID that was created to run when the database is started. The auto-start run ID was returned from /execute/proc and can be retrieved using /show/proc. The default value is false. The supported values are:

true
false

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

Name

Type

Description

status

String

'OK' or 'ERROR'

message

String

Empty if success or an error message

data_type

String

'kill_proc_response' or 'none' in case of an error

data

String

Empty string

data_str

JSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /kill/proc endpoint:

Name	Type	Description
run_ids	array of strings	List of run IDs of proc instances that were killed.
info	map of string to strings	Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.